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There was and is an Aryan race that is to say, 

 the characteristic modes of speech, termed Aryan, 

 were developed among the blond long-heads alone 

 however much some of them may have been 

 modified by the importation of non-Aryan 

 elements. As to the " home " of the Aryan race, 

 it was in Europe, and lay chiefly east of the 

 central highlands and west of the Ural. From 

 this region it spread west, along the coasts of the 

 North Sea to our islands, where, probably, it met 

 the brunet long-heads ; to France, where it found 

 both these and the brunet short-heads ; to 

 Switzerland and South Germany, where it im- 

 pinged on the brunet short-heads ; to Italy, 

 where brunet short-heads seem to have abounded 

 in the north and long-heads in the south ; and to 

 the Balkan peninsula, about the earliest inhabit- 

 ants of which we know next to nothing. There 

 are two ways to Asia Minor, the one over the 

 Bosphorus and the other through the passes of the 

 Caucasus, and the Aryans may well have utilised 

 both. Finally, the south-eastern tribes probably 

 spread themselves gradually over west Turkestan, 

 and, after evolving the primitive Indo-Iranian 

 dialect, eventually colonised Persia and Hindostan, 

 where their speech developed into its final forms. 

 On this hypothesis, the notion that the Celts and 

 the Teutons migrated from about Pamir and the 

 Hindoo-Koosh is as far from the truth as the sup- 

 position that the Indo-Iranians migrated from 



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